Word: nursemaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throw tantrums over the slightest inconvenience or reject a glass of water because it was too warm. And to those who claimed to know her best, she was a vivacious and vulnerable woman who became so debilitated by insecurity and drug abuse that she could barely function without a nursemaid. When Savitch's end finally came in a freak car accident in 1983, one close friend had already finished mourning: the Jessica she had once known had died years before...
...this book is also a postscript to Andrei's memoirs. I was their initiator and, later, typist, editor and nursemaid. I had to do everything as the nursemaid -- to make sure the manuscript survived and became a book and reached its readers -- and to tell that story alone would call for another volume of memoirs or perhaps a mystery book; but the time for that has not come...
...this operation. Bacon's starting point is less authoritative: photographs of anonymous, hermetic white bodies in Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion, a snap of a baboon or a footballer in blurred motion, a wicketkeeper whipping the ball across the stumps, the bloodied face of the nursemaid of the Odessa Steps in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, her spectacles awry. These and other images begin as clues, holes in the social fabric, and are then worked up, gradually, into emblems. The elliptical lenses of the nursemaid's spectacles, for example, turn into bigger ellipses, without a face behind them...
...view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television. The result was akin to the reaction of Frederic, the apprentice pirate in the operetta, upon discovering that his spinsterish nursemaid is not the ideal of female pulchritude: disappointment...
...Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...